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OF TROY, NFAV YORK.

METHOD OF SECURING BOSOMS TO SHIRT-BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,106, dated February 16, 1886. Application filed November 2E, 189-1. Serial No. 149,977. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM LORD HALL, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bosom-Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in bosom-shirts; and the object and purpose of my invention is to simplify the attachment of the bosom and shirt, and thus to re duce the cost of it as regards the time and labor required to make it.

My invention consists (as will be more fully detailed hereinafter in connection with its illustration) of an attachment of bosom and shirt body or front, produced by cutting out the latter to receive the bosom, uniting the edges of the bosom and the edges of the opening thus made a short distance from the edges of both, turning over and down the sewed edges of shirt and bosom on the shirt-front on the line of their sewed union, with an exterior finish that is produced by a bias-cut strip having turned-in edges on both of its sides, and which strip is sewed to the bosom and the shirt-front, so as to cover the turned-down edges of and the seam uniting the bosom and shirt.

Accompanying this specification, to form a part of it, there are three plates of drawings containing five figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of its parts by letter reference used in all of them. Of these illustrations Figure 1 shows aplan view of the shirt front or body made with an attached front re-enforce with the said parts out out to receive a bosom, the corners of the parts at one side of the top of the opening being turned down to illustrate their relatWe position. Fig. 2 shows the shirt-front cut out as at Fig. 1, and the bosom sewed to the edge of the opening a short distance from the edges of bosom and body where the latter is cut out, with the parts at the upper corner of the opening ripped apart and turned down. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line :0 w of Fig. 2, with the thickness of the parts shown as exaggerated, to better illustrate them. Fig. 4 shows the shirt as containing the completed attachment, with the finishing bias strip ripped from its connection at one end and the union of bosom and the edges of the opening cut for the latter, also ripped apart and turned over and down at the upper corner of the bosom. Fig. 5 shows a cross-section of the completed attachment of bosom and shirt, taken on the line 510 a of Fig. 4.

The several parts of the shirt and bosom and strip are designated by letter reference, and the several process steps by which the parts are attached are described as follows:

The letter S designates the shirt-front, shown as made with a front re-enforce, R, and the letter 0 an opening formed to receive a bosom.

The letter B indicates the bosom proper, it being made with a thickness of ply, P, and an inner facing, F.

The letter S" designates a seam uniting the bosom and the opening in the shirt-front a short distance from theircoincidently-laid edges, the edges of the shirt-front at the opening being designated at e, and those of the bosom indicated at e.

The letter f designates a fold made in the shirt-body on the line of the seam S and near its edge e, and by which fold that part of the edge beyond the seam is turned down on the shirt-front with the edges e of the bosom laid over the said folded-down edge of the opening.

The letter T indicates a strip cut on abias line from the fabric, said strip having the turned-in side edges, a a.

The letter S indicates a line of stitching connecting one edge of the strip T to the bosom through one of its turned-in side edges a, and said seam being inside of the seam S, which unites the bosom and front around the opening, and S indicates a seam through the strip T, and its outer turned-in edge uniting the strip thereat to the shirt body or front outside of the turned-down edges of the cut-out opening laid by the fold f. The attachment thus made and the process steps by which produced are simple ones, in which the turned-down edges of the opening were overlapped by the bosom-edge, and as covered by the bias-cut strip and secured by the latter form a strengthening-border around the bosom which is very easily applied.

\Vhile I have shown a bosom made with a ply and facing, the ply may be omitted, and so may the re-enforce R, although I prefer to use both in carrying out my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

The method herein described of securing the bosom to the shirt-opening, which consists in unitingthe edges of the bosom and the edges of the shirt-opening by a common seam line of stitches, then turning the seannedges of the united bosom and shirt-opening outward onto the shirt-front, then stitching one edge of a bias strip of material having turned-in edges to the bosom inside of the line of unionto the shirt-opening, and finally securing the outer [5 and other edge of 'said bias strip to the shirtfront by a line of stitches arranged outside of the edge of the folded seam and outside of the edge of the bosom. v

' Signed at Troy, New York, this 22d day of 20 October, 1884, and in the presence of the two witnesses whose names are hereto written.

\VILLIAM LORD HALL. WVitnesses:

CHARLES S. BRINTNALL, O. H. SHEPARD. 

